Mon, 13 Mar 2006

URL Rewriting in JavaScript

At work I am constantly flipping between a production and a development web server. The live site would have a URL like, "www.mysite.com" and the development site one like, "dev.mysite.com". I was getting tired of removing the "www" from the address and replacing it with "dev" and back again for all the different URLs. This script is a result of that. By simply clicking a saved bookmark on my browser toolbar I can automatically switch back and forth between the production and development servers with ease.

Right-click on the following link, DevSwitch, and select either "Bookmark This Link..." in FireFox or "Add to Favorites..." in Internet Explorer.

The Bookmarklet code is outlined below.

javascript:(function(){
    x=location.href;
    y=(x.indexOf('www')!=-1)?x.replace('www','dev'):x.replace('dev','www');
    location.href=y;
})()


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